[Sustain] Fwd: Disqualify the CPD – Update on "Commission on Presidential Debates: Include All Qualified Candidates in 2016 Presidential Debates"

[Don Eichelberger]

Talk about a gatekeeper role! This "Commission", which sounds all kinds 
of official, is actually an illegal "non-profit" set up by the two main 
parties in 1987, taking the role away from the more open League of Women 
Voters. According to Wikipedia, its donors consist of six large 
donations (kept secret by current campaign laws). Greens and others have 
been moving a suit through the legal system challenging CPD's non-profit 
IRS status, which forbids partisanship. It allows political 
education"provided the activities specifically do not "[favor] a 
candidate or group of candidates" (IRS), which their rules plainly do by 
setting limits unobtainable without lots of money or the kind of 
exposure offered by these debates.

Clearly, the debates need to be more open. But how to do that without 
turning it in to the kind of circus that produced a Trump candidacy out 
of a crowded Republican field? (Although I'm still not sure the best 
possible decision wasn't made; Rubio? Cruz? Christie??). But that's for 
another conversation.

Trump is a symptom of an electorate very angry at the politics as usual 
that has been ruled by the "military-industrial complex" since the early 
days of the republic. Politics is about limiting and defining the 
opposition. Keeping majority control in the fewest hands is the 
corporate game.

How do we end this?

Don



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Oct 15, 2016 —

The Commission on (Rigged) Presidential Debates has now officially 
disqualified third party candidates Governor Gary Johnson and Dr. Jill 
Stein from their third and final debate on October 19.

Now it's time for us to disqualify the CPD as the gatekeeper to our 
selection process for President of the United States.

In an election where the two major party (duopoly) candidates are the 
most...

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